Textbooks Anger Critics

World News to Note

July 10, 2001

TOKYO -- The Japanese government announced Monday that it would order no further major revisions of school textbooks that many critics say whitewash the country's record of imperial atrocities in Asia. The Japanese decision, undertaken after a second review of the new middle-school history text at the demand of South Korea and China, immediately set off a wave of condemnations in those countries, both official and popular.